Our country is living through a sickness. Trump has infected us with a toxic brew of tribal hatred, divisiveness, and, now, utter defiance of the rule of law. Most people in our country are governed by rules, laws, protocol, and shared values. At the National Masters Golf Championship in Georgia […]
2020 Election
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Bill Barr spent two days testifying before Congress in two different hearings and made temporary A G Matthew Whitaker look good by comparison. If nothing else, these hearings should help anyone who thought Barr was going to be a moderating voice for truth, justice and the American way in the […]
The release of AG Barr’s four-page memo, that seems like an attempt to do an end run around the findings of the Mueller Report, has fooled no one who wasn’t already fooled by Trump. What just happened with AG Barr can be likened to a football game where the home […]
It’s not what AG Bill Barr, Trump and the GOP are saying. We do not yet have Mueller’s full written Report to read. All we have is Bill Barr’s distilled, version of Mueller’s Report, and Bill Barr’s determination that Trump did not obstruct justice. Barr is acting as a filter. […]
These days most of my prayers (and I bet yours too) have to do with who will rid us of our vile, noxious, insane president? A lot of people are praying that Mueller’s Report will be the answer. Everyone wants to see it. The House voted unanimously to make the […]
There are currently 15 people running for president with the hope of being chosen as the leader of the Democratic Party. They include Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Kamala Harris, Sen. Cory Booker, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Gov. Jay Inslee, former Representative Beto O’Rourke, Gov. John Hickenlooper, Mayor Pete […]
Our family went to Florida on vacation and I vowed to go off the grid for the entire week-long trip. (Don’t worry, I will get to Nancy Pelosi and impeachment in a minute.) I did not write anything for the Markin Report during that time, limited my exposure to cable […]
We are treated to a barrage of awful news about Trump and his doings every day. Every single day. Today it was about how Jared Kushner never obtained a valid security clearance after being reviewed by numerous agencies including the CIA (which was the only agency to hold out and […]
Donald Trump is NOT my president. President’s Day is here again and in his two years as president, Trump has only deepened my conviction that he is a tool of Vladimir Putin, that he is a racist and a would-be autocrat. He is NOT my president. He is also not […]